CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hisarlik, Xenophanes, Sarpedon
30 Jan 2018
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3. 0 archaic epic: gods in the iliad and kleos. Epithets are often used in homer"s language, such as the swift-footed achilles or snowy-armed . These are features of oral formulaic poetry or composition - homer composed his work as he. You get repetitions of parts of lines, and whole lines, and even whole sections - in antiquity (hellenistic), performed the library of alexandria had scholars that studied homer. These repetitive features are from oral formulaic poetry. Archaeologists found poets doing similar kinds of poetry - composing as they are performing; their poetry is very similar to homer"s poetry (including repetitions) The epic meter was written in dactylic hexameter. The iliad is comprised of over 15000 hexameters divided into 24 books or songs (corresponds to the 24 letters of the greek alphabet. Inside homer"s poetry, we see bards doing exactly what homer might have done when he performed.
